You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.